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With Lorenzo Cohen, PhD & Alison Jefferies, MEd This husband and wife team, authors of Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health, will discuss the current cancer epidemic and how to lower risks of cancer and improve outcomes for those touched by cancer. All of this starts with our lifestyle choices. During this event you … Continue reading Special Book Event: Anti-Cancer Living – What You Need to Know!
With Erin Price, LGSW Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty in everyday life. This series will explore various mindfulness skills over four weeks. All are welcome to attend one session or all four. Session topics include: Wednesday, January 9: Sitting Meditation Wednesday, January 16: Body Scan Wednesday, January 23: Guided Imagery … Continue reading Breathing in Wellness: Mindfulness Series
with Wendy Miller & Larry Kanter This healing circle series will focus on the unique needs of those experiencing the loss, recently or not, of a spouse or partner. No matter where you find yourself in your journey with grief, a chance to be with others who have lost a spouse or partner can lead to … Continue reading A Healing Circle – Exploring Grief and Identity After Loss
With Bryant Johnson, Personal Trainer to RBG and Author of The RBG Workout, Michelle Stravitz, co-founder, 2Unstoppable, Ilana Gamerman, co-founder, 2Unstoppable Join us for an afternoon of Motivation, Conversation, and Empowerment! Meet Bryant Johnson - Supreme Court justice and octogenarian Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer and author of The RBG Workout, How She Stays Strong and … Continue reading A Fitness Conversation with Bryant Johnson and Michelle Stravitz
This program is postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. With Melanie Edwards Join in harmony to relieve stress, find inner peace & express your authentic self with musical mending. Singer, songwriter and musician, Melanie Edwards, uses different instruments & singing techniques with therapeutic mantra chanting in a form of call and response … Continue reading Music Healing Methods For Cancer
Due to low registration, this program has been canceled for February 2. In Partnership with George Washington Cancer Center, Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center, and Camp Kesem If you or a loved one had been diagnosed with cancer, you may have concerns about how younger members of your family are coping. Kids' Club is a group … Continue reading Kids Club / Teens Club
With Wendy Miller & Larry Kanter This ongoing healing circle series will focus on the unique needs of those experiencing the loss, recently or not, of a spouse or partner. No matter where you find yourself in your journey with grief, a chance to be with others who have lost a spouse or partner can lead … Continue reading Ongoing Healing Circle for Grief and Loss of a Life Partner
with Jenna Perkins, RN, WHNP-BC Please join us for a discussion as we explore the ways that a cancer diagnosis can affect your sex life. You can expect to learn about tools that can help prevent and treat common conditions that contribute to discomfort with intercourse. We will discuss both medication and lifestyle management options. … Continue reading The “S” Word: Sex After Cancer
With Erin Price, LGSW Developing mindfulness skills can help combat stress, anxiety, and uncertainty in everyday life. Join us for regular sessions to help you better understand and transform your mind. All experience levels welcome to attend! Location: GW Cancer Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036, 1st Floor in the Katzen Board Room Erin's … Continue reading Mindfulness & Meditation at GW Cancer Center
This class is full. Please contact us at programs@smithcenter.org or 202.483.8600 to be added to wait list. With Laura Pole, RN, MSN PCNS Come in from the cold and warm up in Chef Laura's healing kitchen. You'll learn how to prepare delicious nourishing soups and stews using warming winter vegetables, beans and grains. And how … Continue reading Savoring Seasonal Soups and Stews
With Yael Flusberg, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, RMT, MS Enjoy a greater sense of wellbeing and enhanced energy in our gentle yoga classes. Learn various yoga postures, techniques in progressive relaxation, breathing practices, and meditation to help reduce stress, as well as balance mind, body, and spirit. Our classes are specifically designed for adults facing stress, cancer, … Continue reading Gentle Yoga For Cancer Patients
With Susi Wyss Led by a therapeutic writing facilitator, this session is designed for people living with or affected by illness. Tap into the healing benefits of writing using prompts and other exercises in a playful and supportive environment. No writing experience necessary, just an open mind. All materials will be provided, but you are … Continue reading Writing For Healing
Presented in partnership with Cancer Support Community This workshop will raise awareness among patients and caregivers about diagnoses, treatment options, managing side effects, coping with the psychosocial impact of neuroendocrine and carcinoid tumors, and fostering constructive dialogue with their healthcare team. Presenters will include Dr. Giuseppe Esposito, Chief of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT and Professor … Continue reading Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors (NETs)
This dinner is now full. Please call 202.483.8600 or email programs@smithcenter.org to be added to the waitlist. Names are added to the waitlist in the order received and any open seats will be confirmed by March 5, 2019. With Gerard Pangaud Gérard Pangaud is the youngest 2-star Michelin chef ever and the first in America. … Continue reading Discovery of Healthy and Delicious Foods
For over twenty years, our life-enhancing retreats for people with cancer have been at the heart of our work. Smith Center retreats offer a respite from everyday life with a cancer diagnosis and an opportunity to be fully immersed in healing. Our retreats are designed to empower participants to make life-affirming changes by offering tools, … Continue reading 3-Day Residential Retreat
with Jennifer Bires, LICSW Although we will all die, it's a difficult thing to talk about, especially when faced with a life-threatening illness. This group discussion will help you think of some of the necessary, practical considerations. We will also take time to discuss how death impacts us emotionally and relationally. About Jennifer Bires Jennifer … Continue reading Practically Dying
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